When Highland Park Bowl first opened 89 years ago in the midst of the prohibition, bowling was its side business while booze was its big business. There was a pharmacy out front, a doctor’s office upstairs where they would write you a prescription for an alcoholic remedy and conveniently, a bar in the back to…

It was the first ever film to receive more than five Academy Awards, one of which was bought by Michael Jackson when he bid $1.5 million on the 1939 statue for Best Picture. Re-released in theatres in the US eight times, it raked in more than $400 million, which when adjusted for inflation is anywhere between…

Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through ambitious architectural projects, but none have been quite as astounding as this one. The Water Tower, an 1870s Venetian Gothic building in South East London in its own league. The 99 ft-high Grade II listed building was once as part of…

Like many of you reading this article, Canadian artist Heather Benning has a fascination with the derelict and the abandoned. But when she found a crumbling old farmhouse in the rural setting of Saskatchewan, Canada, Heather decided not to walk away with just the memories of this sad old place, but to use her artistic…